Menu bar, Toolbar and Status bar¶

The menu bar and the toolbar have the characters explained below.

Menu bar¶

The menu bar items change depending on which window is active. The following menu items are always displayed, regardless the active subwindow.

[File] (F)
[Import] (I)
[Simulation] (S)
[Calculation Results] (R)
[View] (V)
[Option] (O)
[Help] (H)

Additional menu items are inserted depending on the active subwindow. Added items are inserted between [Import] (I) and [Simulation] (S).

Additional menu items for each subwindow are explained in the sections shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Sections where the subwindow menu items are explained¶
Subwindow
[Pre-processing Window]
[Grid Bird's-eye view Window]
[2D Post-processing Window]
[Bird's-eye 2D Post-processing Window]
[3D Post-processing Window]
[Graph Window]

Toolbars¶

The following three toolbars are available:

Main Toolbar
Operation Toolbar
Animation Toolbar

For the functions of each toolbar, refer to Table 2.

Table 2 Functions of each toolbar¶
Item	Functions	Displayed when
Main Toolbar	Handling of files, canvas display, solver launching and window display	Always
Operation Toolbar	Operations that are possible for items selected in [Object Browser]	When the [Pre-processing Window] is active
Animation Toolbar	Moving between timesteps of simulation results	When the Post-processing Window or the Graph Window is active

../_images/main_toolbar.png — Figure 3 Main Toolbar¶

../_images/operation_toolbar.png — Figure 4 Operation Toolbar¶

../_images/animation_toolbar.png — Figure 5 Animation Toolbar¶

Status bar¶

Figure 6 shows an example of status bar.

The functions available on status bar are described below.

Scale¶

Displays the scale of the display in the currently active window.

Clicking on it brings up the dialog shown in Figure 7, where you can change the scale by specifying a value.

../_images/scale_dialog.png — Figure 7 Scale editing dialog¶

Angle¶

Displays the angle of rotation of the display in the currently active window, defined as 0 when the x-axis is facing right and counterclockwise from there is the positive direction.

Clicking on it will bring up the dialog shown in Figure 8 where you can change the angle by specifying a value.

../_images/angle_dialog.png — Figure 8 Angle editing dialog¶

Size¶

Displays the size of the drawing area in the currently active window.

When clicked, the dialog shown in Figure 9 will appear, allowing you to resize the window by specifying width and height values.

../_images/windowsize_dialog.png — Figure 9 Window size editing dialog¶

Note

The size displayed and edited by this function is the size of the area in the currently active window where the screenshot will be saved. It does not include the size of the area of the object browser, toolbar, etc.

X, Y¶

Displays the position of the mouse cursor in the currently active window.

CS (Coordinate system)¶

Displays the coordinate system specified in the currently open project.

Clicking on it will bring up the dialog shown in Figure 10, where you can change the coordinate system.